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NGOs Urge EU Action Against Poland in Asylum Rejections
July 14, 2017
Three prominent human rights groups have argued that the EU should "hold Poland accountable" for the decision of Polish border guards to turn away asylum seekers in apparent violation of a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
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EU Creates Committee to Encourage "Green" Securities
July 14, 2017
The EU has established a Green Securities Steering Committee to promote the nascent market for “green debt” in Europe by establishing standards, setting favorable regulations, and encouraging supply and demand for environmentally friendly investments to help reach "EU climate objectives and green infrastructure goals."
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Kelly: Trump Warsaw Speech Echoes Warnings of Historians
July 13, 2017
Jim Kelly of Solidarity Center for Law and Justice explains how the speech President Donald Trump delivered in Warsaw, Poland defending Western Civilization echoes the warnings of the "meta-historians" Arnold Toynbee and Oswald Spengler.
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UK Committee Seeks Tight Bonds with EU on Energy, Climate
July 13, 2017
The UK House of Commons' Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee recently issued a report calling on Britain, as part of its Brexit strategy, to bind itself to the EU's internal energy market, the atomic energy community Euratom, and the EU's carbon emissions trading market after its departure from the bloc.
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Official: ECJ May Monitor Future UK-EU Security Cooperation
July 13, 2017
The Guardian reports that Sir Julian King, the EU official from the UK who handles the European Commission's security agenda, recently warned that maintaining access to the current structure of security and law enforcement cooperation in the EU would require post-Brexit Britain to effectively accept the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) over some of its decisions.